Meaning and purpose of the Subject field (was: Ignore error with non-zero exit status)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-12-22, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2015-12-21, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>>
>>> So as far as I am concerned, if changes of subject line breaks threading for
>>> you, so sad, too bad. Go without threading or use a better mail client.
>>
>> Same here.  After getting what is effectively a "F*&# Y*& I'm too lazy
>> to do things right" from multiple people every day for the past 20
>> years, I think they deserve to be treated with equal respect.
>
> Can you elaborate? If there's something I could be doing better in my
> communications, I'm happy to entertain it.

I was talking about the general case of people who top-post, send
html-only, misidentified charsets, incorrect file types, attach all
sorts of company logos, "intendended-recipient" boilerplate, and so
on.  Once in a while, you just can't take it any longer and have to do
"the right thing" and let all the people with broken MUAs, NNTP
clients, or brains deal with it...

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